Travolta Dubbed “cheesy” By Qantas Air Personnel

Actor John Travolta isn't winning many fans among people who work for the Qantas airline. Travolta is licensed to fly commercial aircraft, and has been a global ambassador the Qantas airline for a while. He filmed a spot for the safety film being shown on a new line of aircraft used by Qantas. Flight crews consider the cheesy and “trite” video spot to be a broken arrow of sorts. Article source - John Travolta Qantas video mocked for being cheesy by crew by Newsytype.com.

Flight crew for Qantas not happy that the Travolta video was made

When on Qantas flights, you may expect to see a pre-flight safety film with Travolta as he is a global ambassador for Qantas Airways. The Daily Mail explains that there are some supporters that are happy about it. Nevertheless, the crew members on Qantas flights don’t like it at all. The Qantas flight crew is praised in the video by Travolta which is shown on all Airbus A380 flights. Flight crews are objecting to the video, saying the content is "cheesy" and "tacky." The crew states it is annoying because “it makes us feel like we work at McDonald’s” while the crew is referred to as “team” instead of “crew” as they would prefer. They also said the “safety message seems trite” in the video.

Staff instead wants a professional pilot

The Qantas movie needs a “real pilot” to make the crew happy. This is what Qantas crew has asked for. many have suggested that Qantas use Captain Richard de Crespigny, who made headlines several months ago after successfully piloting an A380 aircraft to safety after the aircraft suffered engine failure. Crespigny took off on Qantas Flight 32 from Singapore. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports that he was able to turn around and make a safe landing after a motor started to burst into flames when the engine had trouble. There were about 460 people on QF32 when Crespigny landed and saved lives. Hence, many argue he would have made a better spokesperson for safety than Travolta.

Qantas could discover new celeb spokesman by going up the irons

There are lots of celeb pilots that are licensed. Travolta is one of the few that can fly commercial jets though. While Iron Maiden is inactive, singer Bruce Dickinson pilots Boeing 757s for Astraeus which is a British charter airline which many suggest as a better celebrity. Astraeus was commissioned by the band to convert a 757 to a combination cargo and passenger plane to fly the band, crew and equipment between gigs on a 2008 world tour. There was a documentary on the band called “Flight 666” where the plane, named “Ed Force One” after the “Eddie the Head” mascot, was featured. The Astraeus website explained Ed Force One is about to go out once again.